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Hi, |
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I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are |
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two main problems now: |
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1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem |
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2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets say, |
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a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes |
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X. |
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cu |
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Dieter |
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Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:10 schrieb Duncan: |
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> "Dieter Ries" <Clip2@×××.de> posted 20061202162650.218370@×××.net, |
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> |
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> excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:26:50 +0100: |
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> > When I try to start X, there is a message, that the module i use is |
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> > designed for ABI <1, and the XServer is running ABI 1, it says the server |
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> > will run, but there may be funny behaviours. Indeed there are. |
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> Either as you start or in the xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log, normally), |
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> there should be some indication of what module it is talking about. |
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> See if equery belongs <module> turns up anything. That's going to be the |
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> package you need to remerge. If nothing is listed, it may be a stale |
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> version of a file or the slaveryware nvidia drivers you installed manually |
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> (which I take to mean outside of portage). Note that installing them |
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> using the Gentoo package takes care of some stuff that installing them |
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> manually doesn't, as the manual install isn't setup for Gentoo |
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> specifically and uses different default paths and the like. In |
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> particular, mixing the two, switching between emerged via portage, and |
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> manually installing the package as you did, is known to cause weird issues, |
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> as you'll be left with a strange and not very workable missmash of stuff. |
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> It's certainly possible to do the same additional things the Gentoo |
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> ebuild does manually too, but it's the sort of thing that if you are |
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> asking about it, you are best off just sticking to the Gentoo solution and |
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> not trying to figure out how to manage it manually. FWIW, the biggest |
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> problem has to do with Gentoo's eselect opengl management, which is |
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> something the nvidia package itself has no way of knowing about and |
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> therefore fixing, since it's not Gentoo specific as the eselect solution |
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> is. |
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> Of course, here, I purposefully bought an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics |
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> card since it has free drivers. I couldn't legally run slaveryware even if |
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> I wanted to, at least where EULAs are or could be considered legal, as I |
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> simply don't sign over the rights nearly all EULAs demand I sign over, |
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> viewing it much the same way I'd view an attempt to restrict my other |
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> basic rights, such as freedom of religion or freedom of expression. Until |
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> Nvidia has decent free drivers, they don't get my money, just as current |
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> ATI doesn't get my money as they no longer provide drivers or specs for |
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> the community to code its own. If I were upgrading now, it'd likely be to |
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> Intel, even tho I've been an AMD user for over a decade now, because |
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> Intel's integrated chipset video is the best choice for free drivers there |
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> is right now. Fortunately, I'll be upgrading my existing dual Opteron to |
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> dual-cores soon, and won't be upgrading the system for at least two years |
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> after that. By the time I /do/ upgrade, the currently beginning trend |
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> toward standardizing the graphics instruction set to the point it's |
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> basically an extension of the CPU instruction set should be well under |
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> way, with comparable openness as well, so freedomware graphics drivers |
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> making use of it should be getting rather more common. |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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Frank Castle is dead! |
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Call me 'The PUNISHER'! |